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• Protein Identified That Contributes To Symptoms Of Parkinsons Disease

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 686
  Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, an independent and nonprofit biomedical-research organization, have identified a protein that exacerbates symptoms of Parkinsons disease - a discovery that could one day lead to new treatments for people who suffer from this devastating neurodegenerative illness...
  2 days ago

• Solving The Parkinsons Conundrum: Biologists A Step Closer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 686
  Research by a team in the Universitys Department of Biology found evidence that movement disorders, including tremor and slowness of movement (bradykinesia), associated with Parkinsons disease (PD) may be due to a defect in energy production in the nervous system. The advance may help to identify young adults who may ...
  1 week ago

• Researchers Identify Path To Treat Parkinsons Disease At Its Inception

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 686
  Imagine if doctors could spot Parkinsons disease at its inception and treat the protein that triggers it before the disease can sicken the patient. A team of researchers led by Basir Ahmad, a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University, has demonstrated that slow-wriggling alpha-synuclein proteins are the ...
  1 week ago

• Happy Birthday Muhammed Ali - Rumble On!

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 110
  I think Ive mentioned before that I dont watch boxing anymore. Call it good ol day syndrome or whatever, I was spoiled - by Muhammad Ali. I had the opportunity to watch him box during his heyday. Ali-Frazier I, II & III. My friends and I used to argue about whether Frazier or Ali was better - no matter who won. ...
  1 week ago

• Microchips Repair Brain Damage in Rats [VIDEO]

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 882
  Stroke and Parkinson’s Disease patients may benefit from a controversial experiment that implanted microchips into lab rats. Scientists say the tests produced effective results in brain damage research. Rats showed motor function in formerly damaged gray matter after a neural microchip was implanted under the ...
  1 week ago

• Bruce Springsteen once again dazzles at Light of Day

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  Mark Dye/The Star-LedgerBruce Springsteen at Light of Day 2011. It had been a boisterous Saturday night in Asbury Park. A marathon five and a half hours of guitar rock, broken only by brief occasional acoustic interludes, had set the sold-out house astir. But shortly after midnight, all motion at the Paramount ...
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• Biologists a step nearer to solving the Parkinsons conundrum

  
  Polygenicblog — Authority: 124
  Parkin, one of the key genes in Parkinsons disease   regulates oxygen consumption and the production of ATP (the chief supply of energy inside cells). Defects can increase lactate and free radical production. Parkinsons disease genes and risk factors pub-5799224524264318
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• Muhammad Ali turns 70 and still fighting the good fight against Parkinson disease

  
  EOTM! Online - Celebrity News, Entertainment News, Exclusive Red Carpet Interviews, Reviews, Hollywood Gossip — Authority: 121
  Follow @eotmsportsnews on Twitter Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has battled  Parkinson’s disease for decades now.  The voice that once bellowed “I float like a bubble, sting like a bee,” is largely muted now because of the debilitating illness. Getty Images The face, though, is still that of ...
  1 week ago

• NHS warned of neurology timebomb

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Call for neurology tsar as growing numbers are diagnosed with Parkinsons, motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis The NHS is facing a "neurology timebomb" as the number of people with conditions such as Parkinsons and motor neurone disease (MND) increases, an umbrella organisation for charities in the field has ...
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• Parkinson’s Disease – The Parkinson and Other Related Movement Disorders Association – Johannesburg, Gauteng

  
  Search Engine South Africa — Authority: 119
  The Parkinson and Other Related Movement Disorders Association works with the objective of to supply up-to-date information about the Parkinson’s disease , and how to manage the very many challenges associated with living with it. Furthermore, the aim of The Parkinson and Other Related Movement Disorders ...
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• Homicide drops off US list of top causes of death

  
  Tarpon's Swamp — Authority: 539
  Nothing to see here, and if the lamestream media is true to form you never will either. For the first time in almost half a century, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation’s top 15 causes of death , bumped by a lung illness that often develops in elderly people who have choked on their food. The 2010 ...
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• 16th Annual “Power of Love Gala” Honors Muhammad Ali

  
  Toonari Post - A News Mash Up! — Authority: 441
  In its bid to knock out memory disorders, Keep Memory Alive will turn up the heat at its 16th annual Power of Love Gala on Saturday, Feb. 18, as it celebrates the life and legacy of “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali, while raising funds in support of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and the ...
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• The Economic Costs of Brain Disorders

  
  Brain Posts — Authority: 103
  Clinical disorders involving the brain are common and produce a variety of economic costs to society. Cost analyses provide an overview of the types of disorders and their relative contribution to the overall costs to society.  Such types of analyses can aid public health officials in targeting strategies to reduce ...
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• The Boston Life Sciences Newsmakers: Civitas, Blend, Forma, & More

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 624
  Erin Kutz Development deals, clinical advances, startup funding, and new hires made up the New England life sciences news this week. —Chelsea, MA-based Civitas Therapeutics, a spinout from the Waltham, MA, biotech Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS ), said that its inhaled form of the Parkinson’s disease drug L-dopa ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brain Region Can Signal Early Stage Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

  
  NeuroscienceNews.com — Authority: 108
  Early changes to the inferior frontal junction observed in early dementias A key misplaced yet again? Unable to recall a name? Forgetfulness frequently leads to anxiety: is it just a sign of age, or are these the first symptoms of the onset of Alzheimer’s disease? It has never been easy to answer this question in ...
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• Deep Brain Stimulation Lessens Parkinson’s Symptoms

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 595
  Emerging research indicates that deep brain stimulation (DBS) can improve motor symptoms and enhance quality of life in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease. The finding, reported in the online version of The Lancet Neurology journal is published by researchers at the University of Florida and 14 additional ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lewy Bodies Not Found To Be The Primary Cause Of Cell Death In Parkinsons Disease

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 686
  The pathology of Parkinsons disease is characterized by a loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra (SN), an area of the brain associated with motor control, along with the development of α-synuclein (αS) protein in the form of Lewy bodies (LB) in the neurons that survive. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reviewing the Life Science XPrizes in Development or Consideration

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  The goal of the Life Sciences Prize Group is to stimulate innovative breakthroughs in molecular biology, stem cell research, bionics, organogenesis, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence in order to improve health care and extend healthy living. Active - The $10 million Archon Genomics X PRIZE will usher ...
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